7 injured near Kurram border following firing from Afghan side over land dispute: officials
20 November 2022
Seven people were injured following firing from Afghanistan to Pakistan, linked to local cross-border land disputes
DRC president finally signs new Indigenous peoples law
16 November 2022
After 14 years of advocacy, the DRC president finally signs new Indigenous peoples law. On Wednesday, the president of the DRC, Felix Antoine Tshisekedi, signed and promulgated the new law on the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of the Indigenous Pygmy Peoples.
Can a luxury chocolate company save a Congolese forest?
16 November 2022
The widespread popularity of chocolate has led to a cocoa boom in the DRC, escalating deforestation in the country’s primary forests by impoverished locals in the war-torn region.
India
An immense country in population and land size, land governance in India was significantly affected by the transition from a socialist to a market economy since the 1980s. There is complexity both due to the high number of laws relating
The Moi struggle for land rights
15 November 2022
On the ground and in the courts, members of the Moi indigenous group are resisting oil palm expansion in West Papua, Indonesia
Bangladesh's Santals continue struggle for ancestral land
08 November 2022
Indigenous Santal people in Bangladesh remember the deadly clashes that led to their eviction from their ancestral land six years ago.
Webinar recap: The New Customary Land Rights Act in Sierra Leone
17 November 2022
In September 2022, Sierra Leone enacted unprecedented new laws related to land, climate and sustainable development – the Customary Land Rights Act 2022 and the National Land Commission Act 2022. The webinar focused on the Customary Land Rights Act 2022, and its transformative power to support communities in protecting their land rights and pursue sustainable development.
Analysis: At COP27, nature protection takes root - but value still unclear
16 November 2022
A push to conserve 30% of the planet's land and oceans by 2030 - a key pillar of a new global nature pact due to be agreed next month - has gained the support of about 112 nations, a big boost from 70 a year ago, leaders said at the COP27 climate summit.
Cop27: ‘It’s humiliating’ – Indigenous voices say they are being ignored at climate summit – as it happened
16 November 2022
A Kulkalgal activist from the Torres Strait Islands has said the way the world often treats Indigenous people is an insult and that he is here at the Cop27 conference in Egypt “fighting for our home”.
Consultancy opportunity on discrimination and exclusion in land corruption
16 November 2022
Transparency International is inviting experts to work on a consultancy about how land corruption affects discriminated and marginalised groups.